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...spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
Died. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., 81, pioneer meat packer, president (1910-26) of the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago. Onetime stockyard cowboy, he and his brother Michael worked for Armour & Co., later established their own business. In 1900 Edward Sr. ransomed his son Edward Jr. from Kidnapper Pat Crowe for $25,000 in gold...
With 30 tried-&-true Westerns, four cliffhangers (serials) on its schedule, Republic is celebrating its majority by budgeting 32 feature pictures. If these should flop, the studio can always beat its way back to the brush with its ace box-office star, Gene Autry, the singing cowboy...
Thanks to movies, phonograph, radio and missionary, the world's primitive music is fast dying. Long ago Hawaiian guitar and ukulele tunes were corrupted by the harmonies of the missionary hymn. Elsewhere cowboy ditties and last year's swing hits on battered records have influenced, if not supplanted, the authentic aboriginal hotcha. So the Fahnestocks, who began sailing the South Seas seven years ago, resolved to catch some native music before it got G-stringed...
...upper-lefthand corner of the map. Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks...